Sodomy Law In Texas

The legal issue surrounding this heinous crime done to males can be complicated. To start off with police officers are usually the first responders and at time they can cause more harm than good. Officers are not at times properly trained for this kind of response and can be insensitive. Some officers when encountering a male victim they are usually in disbelief. In this moment, the victim has been denied a proper investigation, and the feelings of they deserved it or wanted begin. With the time legal law has changed to be more neutralized with gender. The crime of rape is defined differently depending on the state. In some states they no longer used the word rape. Instead, they use different terminology like sexual battery, unlawful intercourse …show more content…
In China, males under the age of 14 will not charge unless there was a physical assault. In China physical assault can be charged and punished for a maximum of five years. The meaning for sodomy in this purpose is intercourse between humans anal or oral intercourse. Which may be punishable as criminal offense. In the State of Texas the first sodomy law passed in 1860. In that time it was punishable for five to 15 years. Over the years, the sodomy law has been under much debate and contradictions. In 1960, in Illinois they had to review the statutes. The State was recognizing that heterosexuals were involved oral and anal intercourses. In Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), when Hardwick was having oral sex with another male being consensual. He was arrested and charged with sodomy. The prosecutor decline the case but Hardwich took the suit to federal court, declaring it was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court held the law. It was not until Lawrence v. Texas (2003) the United States Supreme Court made vast decision. The sodomy law was no longer going to be applied to gays and lesbians. Even though many people were not pleased with the decision including Justice Scalia saying that the Court was “adopting the “homosexual …show more content…
The military goes by their own federal legal code. Under this code sodomy is illegal. Also since President Clinton approved for gay and lesbians to serve this county as long as they remain celibate and do not mention their sexual orientation. The policies and laws that intertwine between the military can be tougher in their punishment of same sex acts than sexual violence. The conversations of men being victims of sexual violence is rising, but not nearly enough. This topic still has much to cover and society still keeps it as a secret. Regardless of the stigma there are programs that support men through this traumatic and difficult